Queerly Cosmopolitan : Bohemia and Belonging in a Brazilian Middle-of-Nowhere City

"An ethnography of urban citizenship, global belonging, and queerness in a rapidly growing provincial city in the Global South, Queerly Cosmopolitan explores how people develop a sense of belonging in a city understood by many to be "unimportant" and "in the middle of nowhere." In his exploration of the city of Teresina and its inhabitants' attempts to establish a sense of belonging and self-worth, Timothy Eugene Murphy creatively employs queer theory to investigate a community of bohemians. As he follows the participants through different realms of life--nocturnal bohemia, work, family, and intimate friendships--Murphy demonstrates how widely circulating cultural forms, from music to sexuality, offer upwardly mobile communities ways to fashion cosmopolitan lives in even the most peripheral locations."-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A Middle-of-Nowhere Somewhere (Timothy Eugene Murphy)....Pages 3-22 From Terehell to Terenowhere (Timothy Eugene Murphy)....Pages 23-39 Chique Distinction in a Big Small Town (Timothy Eugene Murphy)....Pages 41-71 Front Matter ....Pages 73-73 Nocturnal Bohemia (Timothy Eugene Murphy)....Pages 75-95 Black Sheep by Day (Timothy Eugene Murphy)....Pages 97-120 Friends of Dusk and Dawn (Timothy Eugene Murphy)....Pages 121-141 Epilogue: Queerness as Belonging (Timothy Eugene Murphy)....Pages 143-149 Back Matter ....Pages 151-157